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And if we are not abject, the Englishman need not lower
himself. Then may we become colleagues and enter into
mutual arrangements.
Until we can cast off our individual or Samajic folly;
as long as we remain unable to grant to our own country-
men the full rights of man; as long as our Zamindars
continue to look on their tenantry as part of the pro-
perty, our men in power glory in keeping their subordi-
nates under their heels, our higher castes think nothing
of looking down on the lowest castes as worse than
beasts; so long shall we not have the right or power to
demand from the Englishman proper behaviour towards
ourselves.
At every turn,—in her religion, in her Samaj, in her
daily practice—does the India of to-day fail to do justice
to herself. She does not purify her soul by sacrifice, and
so on every side she suffers futility. She cannot meet the
outsider on equal terms and so receives nothing of value
from him. No cleverness or violence can deliver her
from the sufferings and insults of which the Englishman
is but the instrument. Only when she can meet him as
his equal, will all reason for antagonism, and with it all
conflict, disappear. Then will the East and the West
unite in India,—country with country, race with race,
knowledge with knowledge, endeavour with endeavour.
Then will the History of India come to an end, merged
in the History of the World which will begin.